Multi-Domain
Managers

A multi-domain manager is an application that can manage more than one
domain. For example,
Cisco UCS Central
is a multi-domain manager that manages one or more registered
Cisco UCS domains.

Cisco UCS Central
Accounts

Each
Cisco UCS Central
account represents a single
Cisco UCS Central,
plus all the
Cisco UCS domains
registered with that
Cisco UCS Central.

When you create a
Cisco UCS Central
account all
Cisco UCS domains
that are registered with that
Cisco UCS Central,
and their related
Cisco UCS Manager
accounts, are imported into
Cisco UCS Director.
You can assign one or more of those
Cisco UCS Manager
accounts from the
Cisco UCS Central
account to a pod if needed. You can also register a
Cisco UCS Manager
account with a
Cisco UCS Central
account.

Note

Cisco UCS Central
is a multi-domain manager; you do not create the
Cisco UCS Central
account in a pod.

Adding a
Cisco UCS Central Account

In the
Multi-Domain Manager Account dialog box, complete the
following fields:

Name

Description

Account Name
field

A
unique name that you assign to this account.

Description
field

(Optional) A description of this account.

Account Type
drop-down list

Choose
the account type. You must choose
UCS Central.

Server Address
field

The IP
address of
Cisco UCS Central.

User ID
field

The
username that this account will use to access
Cisco UCS Central. This username must
be a valid account in
Cisco UCS Central.

Password
field

The
password associated with the username.

Transport Type
drop-down list

Choose
the transport type that you want to use for this account. This can be one of
the following:

http

https

Port field

The
port used to access
Cisco UCS Central.

Contact Email
field

The
email address that you can use to contact the administrator or other person
responsible for this account.

Location
field

The
location of this account.

Step 4

Click
Add.

Cisco UCS Director tests the connection to
Cisco UCS Central. If that test is
successful, it adds the
Cisco UCS Central account and
discovers all infrastructure elements and registered
Cisco UCS domains in that
account, including chassis, servers, fabric interconnects, service profiles,
and pools. This discovery process and inventory collection cycle takes
approximately five minutes to complete.

The polling
interval configured on the
Infrastructure System Parameters tab specifies the
frequency of inventory collection.

Testing the
Connection to a Physical Account

You can test the
connection at any time after you add an account to a pod.

Step 1

On the menu
bar, choose
Administration > Physical
Accounts.

Step 2

Click the tab
for the type of account that you want to test.

For example,
click the
Physical Accounts tab or the
Multi-Domain Managers tab.

Step 3

In the table,
click the row of the account for which you want to test the connection.

Step 4

Click
Test
Connection.

Step 5

When the
connection test has completed, click
Close.

What to Do Next

If the connection
fails, verify the configuration of the account, including the username and
password. If the username and password are correct, determine whether there is
a network connectivity problem.

Verifying the
Discovery of a
Cisco UCS Central Account

Step 1

On the menu
bar, choose
Physical > Compute.

Step 2

In the left
pane, expand
Multi-Domain Managers.

Step 3

In the left
pane, click
UCS
Central Accounts.

Step 4

In the right
pane, click the row in the table for the account that you want to verify.

Step 5

Click
View
Details.

Cisco UCS Director displays a set of tabs that contain
information about the components of that account that it has discovered.

Assigning a
Cisco UCS Domain to a Pod

After you assign a
Cisco UCS domain
to a pod,
Cisco UCS Director
displays it as a
Cisco UCS Manager
account, and you can configure, monitor, and obtain reports on that account.

Step 1

On the menu
bar, choose
Physical > Compute.

Step 2

In the left
pane, expand
Multi-Domain Managers.

Step 3

In the left
pane, expand
UCS
Central Accounts and then click the
Cisco UCS Central account.

Step 4

In the right
pane, click the
All UCS
Domains tab and then click the row in the table for the domain that
you want to assign to a pod.

Step 5

Click
Assign
to Pod.

Step 6

In the
Assign to
Pod dialog box, complete the following fields:

Name

Description

Pod drop-down
list

Choose
the pod to which this account belongs.

Authentication
Type drop-down list

Choose
the type of authentication to be used for this account. This can be one of the
following:

Locally Authenticated—A locally authenticated user
account is authenticated directly through the fabric interconnect and can be
enabled or disabled by anyone with admin or AAA privileges.

Remotely
Authenticated—A remotely authenticated user account is any user
account that is authenticated through LDAP, RADIUS, or TACACS+.

Server Management
drop-down list

Choose
how you want to have the servers in this account managed. This can be one of
the following:

All
Servers—All servers are managed by
Cisco UCS Director.
This option is the default. If you choose this option, all servers are added in
the Managed state.

Selected Servers—Only selected servers are managed
by
Cisco UCS Director.
You can add and remove servers from the managed server list as needed. If you
choose this option, all servers are added in the Unmanaged state.

The
username that this account will use to access
Cisco UCS Manager. This username must be a valid account in
Cisco UCS Manager.

Password
field

The
password associated with the username.

Transport Type
drop-down list

Choose the transport type that you want to use for this account.
This can be one of the following:

http

https

Port field

The
port used to access
Cisco UCS Manager.

Contact Email
field

The
email address that you can use to contact the administrator or other person
responsible for this account.

Location
field

The
location of this account.

Service
Provider field

(Optional) The name of the service provider associated with this
account, if any.

Step 7

Click
Submit.

Unassigning a
Cisco UCS Domain from a
Pod

When you unassign a
Cisco UCS domain
from a pod,
Cisco UCS Director
does not delete the related
Cisco UCS Manager
account.
If you want to delete the account, you must use Administration > Physical Accounts.

Step 1

On the menu
bar, choose
Physical > Compute.

Step 2

In the left
pane, expand
Multi-Domain Managers.

Step 3

In the left
pane, expand
UCS
Central Accounts and then click the
Cisco UCS Central account.

Step 4

In the right
pane, click the
All UCS
Domains tab and then click the row in the table for the domain that
you want to unassign from a pod.

Step 5

Click
Unassign
from Pod.

Step 6

In the
UCSM
Account dialog box, click
Submit.

Organizations

Organizations in a
Multitenancy Environment

Multitenancy allows you to divide the large physical
infrastructure of an
Cisco UCS domain into logical entities known as organizations. As a result, you can
achieve a logical isolation between organizations without providing a dedicated
physical infrastructure for each organization.

You can assign
unique resources to each tenant through the related organization in the
multitenant environment. These resources can include different policies, pools,
and quality of service definitions. You can also implement locales to assign or
restrict user privileges and roles by organization, if you do not want all
users to have access to all organizations.

If you set up a
multitenant environment, all organizations are hierarchical. The top-level
organization is always root. The policies and pools that you create in root are
system-wide and are available to all organizations in the system. However, any
policies and pools created in other organizations are only available to
organizations that are above it in the same hierarchy. For example, if a system
has organizations named Finance and HR that are not in the same hierarchy,
Finance cannot use any policies in the HR organization, and HR cannot access
any policies in the Finance organization. However, both Finance and HR can use
policies and pools in the root organization.

If you create
organizations in a multitenant environment, you can also set up one or more of
the following for each organization or for a suborganization in the same
hierarchy:

Resource pools

Policies

Service
profiles

Service profile
templates

The root
organization is always the top level organization.

Creating an
Organization

Step 1

On the menu
bar, choose
Physical > Compute.

Step 2

In the left
pane, expand
Multi-Domain Managers.

Step 3

In the left
pane, expand
UCS
Central Accounts and then click the
Cisco UCS Central account.

Step 4

In the right
pane, click the
Organizations tab.

Step 5

Click
Add.

Step 6

In the
Add Organization dialog box, complete the
following fields:

In the
Name field, enter a name for the
organization.

In the
Description field, enter a description for
the organization.

From the
Parent Organization drop-down list, choose
the organization under which this organization will reside.

Time Zones

Cisco UCS requires a domain-specific time zone setting and an NTP server to
ensure the correct time displays in
Cisco UCS Central.
If you do not configure time zones, the time might not display correctly.

In addition, if your environment includes
Cisco UCS Central,
you must configure an NTP server and the correct time zone in
Cisco UCS Manager
and
Cisco UCS Central to ensure that they are in sync. If the time and date in the
Cisco UCS domain and
Cisco UCS Central are out of sync, the registration might fail.